This 2007 animation from YouTube features a Digambara monk singing the fundamental Jain sacred formulas. The second is the Namaskāra-mantra, also called the Navkār-mantra or Namokār-mantra. A very old mantra in Prakrit, it can be sung to various melodies. It is chanted daily to the ‘five types of beings worthy of worship’ or Supreme Beings’:

  • enlightened teachers – Arhats or Jinas
  • liberated souls – siddhas
  • mendicant leaders – ācāryas
  • teachers – upādhyāyas
  • mendicants – sādhus.

Then comes a short mantra about the emptiness of the world of rebirths and the celebration of the ‘four auspicious things’ or ‘four refuges’: 

  • Arhat
  • siddha
  • monks
  • law – dharma.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-b17i_iTiA